LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Three people were arrested on felony charges after they allegedly set a Lonoke County home on fire by shooting fireworks Wednesday, despite authorities’ statewide plea to not use incendiaries on Independence Day.

The Lonoke County Sheriff’s Department said the home in Cabot, along with several outbuildings, caught fire about 3:30 p.m., around the time that authorities were alerted to three people were riding all-terrain vehicles in the area and lighting fireworks.

The sheriff’s department said a state trooper arrested Katlynn Mayfield, 23, Samantha Ashley Mayfield, 21, and Matthew Mayfield, 24, all of Cabot. They are charged with felony criminal mischief, but hadn’t been booked into jail yet Wednesday evening.

A sheriff’s dispatcher couldn’t address questions about whether the three were cited and released or would be held. Three phone numbers listed for the last name Mayfield on West Mountain Springs Road were all disconnected.

Fire crews responded to numerous fires across the state Wednesday as temperatures topped 100 degrees in places, with only scant, isolated rainfall reaching the ground. Seventy of Arkansas’ 75 counties have burn bans in place — including Lonoke County — and the entire state is classified as at extreme risk of wildfires.

A fire in Carroll County in northwest Arkansas near the Missouri border consumed 120 acres on Wednesday. Forestry Commission crews and local agencies battled the fire on the ground, and it was fought from the air with a National Guard Black Hawk helicopter, a single engine air tanker and a U.S. Forest Service helicopter.

In Dallas County, two fires burned close to each other and scorched 100 acres, Arkansas Forestry Commission spokeswoman Sheila Doughty said. Ground crews were supplemented by a Forestry Commission helicopter and another National Guard Black Hawk helicopter.

Windy conditions made it difficult to fight, Doughty said.

“Fire creates its own wind ... and it makes a fire erratic and hard to put out,” she said.

In Clark County, a 50-acre fire near DeGray Lake broke out at Bale Eagle Memorial, and four Forestry Commission crews worked to suppress that fire.

Also around the state, Union County had two fires and there were also single fires in Ashley, Drew, Hot Spring, Scott, Sharp, and White counties.

Numerous fireworks displays were canceled Tuesday and Wednesday, though some shows were to go on as scheduled, including Little Rock’s display over the Arkansas River on Wednesday evening.

Scant amounts of rain fell in parts of the state Wednesday, though hardly enough to break the drought. A slight chance of thunderstorms is forecast for Friday through Sunday, and temperatures will remain at or near 100 degrees for much of the state.

In anticipation of fires, the Arkansas National Guard provided crews to fly the two helicopters, which are on loan through the weekend. Each is equipped with a 660-gallon bucket for dumping water.

Fires that broke out Tuesday in Pope County near Atkins and in Pulaski County near Maumelle were suppressed by Wednesday morning. The Pope County fire resulted in the evacuation of 144 homes, though none burned.